Douglas v. Brownell

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• holding that 5-day notice requirement for parade permit application was not narrowly tailored and expressing concern over application to groups of ten or more persons
• striking down a five-day notice requirement for parades and pickets on city streets
• striking down a five-day advance notice requirement for processions of ten or more persons on streets, sidewalks, and public ways on the grounds that it was unjustifiably long and applied to groups as small as ten
• rejecting defendants’ argument that “the City’s limited resources and small police force” justified a 5-day notice requirement for parades, because its effect of barring spontaneous speech rendered it insufficiently narrowly tailored
• upholding a ban on picketing “before, about, or immediately adjacent to” a residence
• invalidating a blanket 5-day notice requirement due to its burden on spontaneous expression

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).